All items tagged with musicians (305)
Avantone Pro Introduces Sub-Frequency Kick Drum Microphone
June 8, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Avantone Pro Introduces Sub-Frequency Kick Drum Microphone

Avantone Pro announced availability of Kick — a remake of the popular Yamaha SubKick Low-Frequency Capture Device designed to bring out the natural sound of bass drums and floor toms. The Kick is a sub-frequency (below 100Hz) kick drum microphone that can be used together with other drum microphones. Avantone Pro says it aims to bring back to life this well-known concept, offering an affordable, high-quality alternative, using its own ‘white cone’ low-frequency driver to capture lower frequencies than a standard dynamic microphone.
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Celemony Melodyne 5 Now Available with Improved Algorithm for Vocal Tracks
May 26, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celemony Melodyne 5 Now Available with Improved Algorithm for Vocal Tracks

Celemony Software GmbH, announced immediate availability of the new Melodyne Version 5, advanced note and audio pitch editing software. The new Melodyne 5 offers enhanced technologies for musical editing of vocals in addition to a chord track with automatic chord recognition, access to the dynamics even of individual notes within chords, and countless further improvements to Melodyne's unique tools. Melodyne 5 also makes the editing and creative manipulation of recordings and samples better, faster, and more musical.
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Apple Launches Logic Pro X 10.5 Software with New Creative Tools for Musicians and Producers
May 14, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Apple Launches Logic Pro X 10.5 Software with New Creative Tools for Musicians and Producers

Apple launched a major update to its music production software Logic Pro X, now adding a professional version of Live Loops, a completely redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools (drum machines for the 21st century). Increasingly, the software is adding more and more creative features, making Logic Pro X 10.5 a massive release for all musicians, including those producing electronic music. Underneath it all, there is a powerful DAW solution.
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Sennheiser HD 280 PRO Headphones Anniversary Offer - for Critical Monitoring Applications
May 11, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser HD 280 PRO Headphones Anniversary Offer - for Critical Monitoring Applications

For those users looking for a pair of monitoring headphones that combine a robust, modular design with accurate, detailed sound reproduction and good isolation, there is a new Sennheiser Anniversary Deal for May. As part of Sennheiser’s 75th anniversary offers, the company is offering the closed, circumaural HD 280 PRO headphones for $79.95 USD (MRSP) instead of $99.95. (EUR79 instead of EUR99).
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Reason Studios Adds AAX Audio Plugin Support for Avid Pro Tools
May 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Reason Studios Adds AAX Audio Plugin Support for Avid Pro Tools

Reason Studios (former Propellerhead from Stockholm, Sweden) released Reason 11.3, bringing the famed Reason Rack as a native AAX plugin to Avid Pro Tools music software. The announcement was made by Mattias Häggström Gerdt, Reason Product Manager, and underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to the Reason platform of instruments, plugins and music production software.
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Radial Engineering Introduces HDI Studio-Grade Direct Box and Preamplifier
May 6, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Radial Engineering Introduces HDI Studio-Grade Direct Box and Preamplifier

Described as Radial's biggest product announcement in years (certainly since the company's acquisition in January 2018,) the HDI, Radial's new flagship DI Box is now shipping. Shown in prototype form at AES 2019 in NY, and officially announced at NAMM 2020 in January, the HDI is the answer to a question Radial put to in-house engineer "Hutch" Hutchinson: "If you could design any type of DI box you wanted, what would it look and sound like?"
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Adam Audio Introduces T8V Studio Monitor with Bigger, Lighter Woofer
April 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Adam Audio Introduces T8V Studio Monitor with Bigger, Lighter Woofer

Adam Audio announced the new T8V 2-way active studio monitor, the latest addition to its affordable T Series range. The series already included the T5V with a 5" woofer, and the T7V with 7" woofer, all using the same U-ART ribbon high-frequency driver, beveled cabinet design, rear-firing bass reflex port, plus built-in DSP-controlled driver crossovers and equalization. The new T8V features an 8-inch woofer paired with more powerful amplification to generate a lower bass extension, adequate to larger project and home studios.
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Tracktion Launches Fully Featured Unlimited Free DAW for All Operating Systems
March 30, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Tracktion Launches Fully Featured Unlimited Free DAW for All Operating Systems

In response to the virus pandemic situation, Tracktion Corporation announced Waveform Free, a perfect solution for making and sharing music for anyone stuck at home, self-isolating. "The software has no restrictions, other than imagination and more capabilities than most enthusiastic producers will ever need. Stay safe at home, keep busy, get the creative juices flowing and dive into a genuinely complete, stand-alone, Free DAW," the company says.
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Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format
March 27, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format

Celestion continues its Impulse Responses initiatives with, this time announcing availability of the Celestion Ruby Two Notes Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses, for use with the critically acclaimed Torpedo (Studio, Live, C.A.B) hardware, the speaker and miking simulation engine; and Wall of Sound software environment (a DAW plug-in version of Torpedo). Two Notes Audio Engineering (https://www.two-notes.com) is a French manufacturer of guitar/bass speaker, cabinet simulation products.
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Tascam Model 12 Integrated Production Mixer and Recording Interface Now with Carry-On Bag
March 26, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Tascam Model 12 Integrated Production Mixer and Recording Interface Now with Carry-On Bag

Announced at NAMM 2020 in January and now with the initial shipment already sold out, Tascam reported that its second wave of Model 12 mixers are on the way and will be available via authorized in-store and authorized online retailers soon. Just in time for the compact Model 12 availability, Tascam has introduced a dedicated carry bag for the unit, the CS-Model 12, allowing users to leverage the mixer features in live sound and podcast applications, recording in the field, and basically carry their project studio everywhere they go.
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